OpenAI Adds SearchGPT Option to Apple's Shortcuts App

Oh great. Even easier ways to find information statistically assembled by a machine learning algorithm (please don't call this stuff "intelligence") with no comprehension. Now we can just accept answers from the software without a clue from which illegally-scraped information sources are blended into the response.

Answers provided without the context of the source sites & writers, from a system that has been repeatedly proven to be unreliable at rates that should even make Siri blush, are arguably worse than having no answers at all.

Internet searches may take a few more inconvenient steps to execute, but the quality and value of the answers are vastly better. This is especially true if you compare results from multiple sources with known biases. But LLMs take all of that context away, and just spit out information lacking in the nuances that give it clarity.

If Apple allowed openAI an api, they could build a better Apple intelligence experience for us.

Why smartphones do not make us smarter and why Artificial Intelligence is making nobody more intelligent?

I guess the thrill lies in the personality of the fanboy adapting tech that promises something the fanboy does not own himself.

And those people give away any remaining bit of Privacy to get a new feature which is almost useless.

The source for stupid decisions can be found in consumers trying to compensate their very own shortcomings.

Basically these devices are simulators for real life experiences - and always leave us with a vacuum, a feeling of missing out.

I miss the times when we asked for directions, but maybe I am just old?

Honestly, this rant sounds much like what I used to hear when the internet was becoming a thing. "Books are the only real place to find information", "There no context on that web page", "how do you know if what's on that web page is true?!", etc... But one lesson remains, be critical of anything you read. Google searches vs. LLMs don't change that fact.